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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Jul 10

NEW Talking Archives 2 episode available for viewing!

The 5th episode of TA2 features Ghanaian-born artist and filmmaker Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon.

On A/CA's Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/counterarchi...

For more information: counterarchive.ca/talking-arch...

Talking Archives 2, Episode 5: Obarima Kofi Ofosu-Yeboah

Watch the fifth episode of Talking Archives 2, our online interview series, produced by A/CA researchers, Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex, featuring conversations…

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · Jun 17

Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser. June 26th, 19h - Space Unltd, Toronto expcinema.org/site/en/even...

Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser

Join us for Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party!Thursday, June 26th 7-10pm | Space Unltd, 1213 Bathurst St, Toronto | $5-$15 ENTRYThis year, we invited 20 artists & filmmakers to create 3 original p...

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Current large language models don’t simply automate tasks previously done by humans; they fundamentally change our relationship with information." - Oluseyi Noah Adebanjo, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
https://loom.ly/4HFfByQ

Archival Outlook May/June 2025 Page 4

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Fragments - A Journal of videographic form and method @fragmentsjournal.bsky.social · May 28

We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Experimental Cinema @expcinema.bsky.social · May 29

New publication: "Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology" - with contributions by Almudena Escobar López, Victor Guimarães, Adam Piron, Raquel Schefer, and Federico Windhausen. Published by ICA expcinema.org/site/en/book...

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos challenges cin...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · May 27

Congratulations to the A/CA members presenting their research at FMSAC this week! For details about A/CA members’ events, collaborative workshops, panels, and individual paper presentations, click here: counterarchive.ca/aca-members-...

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Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre @cfmdcfilm.bsky.social · May 16

June 4 Tkaronto/Toronto Queer Cinema for Palestine 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Join us June 4 at 7pm at Innis Town Hall
🎟️ Free event! Please consider making a donation to help us cover the venue & speakers fee — remaining funds will be directed to Palestinian mutual aid projects
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · May 16

We are thrilled to share: Talking Archives 2, episode 4, featuring Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán in conversation with Monika Kin Gagnon about his film Option Zero, which focuses on the struggles of Cuban migrants journeying through Latin America to reach the US. See vimeo.com/counterarchi...

Talking Archives 2 Episode 4 - Marcel Beltrán

Watch the fourth episode of Talking Archives 2, our online interview series produced by Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA) researchers Monika Kin Gagnon and Elina Lex,…

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Apr 29

📚 The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has donated more than 2,200 books on drug use & policy to #InternetArchive. A vital public resource preserved, ensuring continued access for researchers, healthcare providers & advocates working in drug policy.

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/04/22/n...

A collection of books from the new Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) collection

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VUCAVU @vucavu.bsky.social · Apr 28

VUCAVU @vucavu.bsky.social · Apr 17

We're HIRING! a VUCAVU.education Digital Platform Outreach Coordinator.
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Application deadline: May 1, 2025
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MORE INFO: vucavu.com/VUCAVU/media...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 29

If you’re at FMSAC this year, you’ll also have the chance to view the program during the “Desire Lines: Intimate Autonomies in 50 years of Groupe Intervention Vidéo” workshop on Thursday, May 29 at 1:00 pm.

More info to come!

counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 29

To see the full program and to download the guide, visit vucavu.com/en/aca-giv/d...

Desire Lines

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 29

More information is available on our website, counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...

New Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) Educational Guide on VUCAVU.com | Archive/CounterArchivepinfacebookinstagramtwitter

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 29

The Desire Lines full video program is available here, New Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) Educational Guide on VUCAVU.com

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 29

Here's a preview of Desire Lines: Experimental Video as Social and Spatial Interventions, a collaboration between A/CA, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL) at McGill U and the independent, artist-driven, Canadian bilingual streaming platform VUCAVU: vimeo.com/1071926927

Desire Lines - Trailer

This is "Desire Lines - Trailer" by Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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VUCAVU @vucavu.bsky.social · Apr 28

Discover a NEW! educational guide created by our partners at Archive/Counter-Archive and Groupe Intervention Vidéo - Curated by Alanna Thain and Ylenia Olibet from the Moving Image Research Lab (MIRL)at McGill University - now on @vucavu.bsky.social

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are proud to announce the new Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) educational guide by Archive/Counter-Archive. Now available on VUCAVU.com, vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...!

Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...

@givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social

rectangular promotional image. background image is still from Cathy Sisler's Aberrant Motion #1: a city street scene, in which a tall figure in a long black coat walks dramatically in front of a large red Pharmaprix sign.

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 25

We are proud to announce the new Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) educational guide by Archive/Counter-Archive. Now available on VUCAVU.com, vucavu.com/en/a-ca/educ...!

Find out more here: counterarchive.ca/new-groupe-i...

@givideo.bsky.social, @vucavu.bsky.social

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VUCAVU @vucavu.bsky.social · Apr 24

Nous sommes fièr.es d'annoncer le lancement du nouveau guide pédagogique du Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) par Archive/Counter-Archive maintenant sur VUCAVU.com! @givideo.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social
En savoir plus ici: vucavu.com/fr/aca-giv/l...

Lignes de désir

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · Apr 23

If you'll be in London next week, come chat about the (proposed) idea of "archival inquiry" at Mayday Rooms !

Hoping to bring together concepts & practices of "co-research" in relation to both archival labours and methods of historical research:
maydayrooms.org/event/archiv...

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counterarchive.bsky.social @counterarchive.bsky.social · Apr 21

Don't miss the world premiere of Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance at the 2025 Toronto Hot Docs Festival, opening on Thursday, April 24th!

This project was an incredible collaborative effort that includes several A/CA members. For more information, counterarchive.ca/parade-queer....

@hotdocs

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance | Hot Docs

Revisit the pivotal moments and courageous actions that ignited Canada’s 2SLGBTQ+ movement. From early struggles to landmark victories, this powerful reminder of how quickly rights can be taken away h...

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · Apr 15

New issue of JFP hot off the press!!! With a major dossier on "Women, Cinema, and Film Archives" and fab review of THE BAT 🦇📀 by @pamhutch.bsky.social !!! 😍🎞️ www.calameo.com/fiaf/books/0...

JOURNAL OF FILM PRESERVATION #112, April 2025

Journal of Film Preservation, No.112, April 2025

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Apr 2

From the essay, “Cultural Preservation and Queer History,” by Brooke Palmieri, part of the Vanishing Culture report.

Download the full report now ➡️ archive.org/details/vani...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Apr 1

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
➡️ spectrum.ieee.org/digital-arch...

Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible!

Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

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Thomas Padilla @thomaspadilla.bsky.social · Apr 1

Like many others I am dismayed by the effort to end IMLS. I know IMLS matters to so many people. I put together the following site to collect and share stories of how "IMLS matters" to people. Please consider submitting a story.

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imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

IMLS Matters

Responses to this form will be published at https://imls-matters.github.io/imlsmatters/

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LGBTQ History @lgbtqhistory.bsky.social · Mar 31

I want to give a quick shout-out to @transgenderarchive.bsky.social for Transgender Day of Visibility. Their work documenting and sharing trans lives through history is incredible and so important. Give them a follow and check out www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net

Digital Transgender Archive

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